Middle Aged Memories

Rockym · January 2015

I had to burn/shred my diaries from Jr. High. I was afraid someone in my family would see it after I was gone. I figured if the memory was worth keeping... I'd remember ;-).

MinusTwo · January 2015

Rockym - no doubt you're right - all that pre-teen & teen girl angst. But I've 'remembered' things about the world at the time & place and "learned" some new views about my family 50 years ago that I think will be valuable if I ever do decide to grow up. I only have one son and he would never take the time to read something like this. And he knows to pass nothing of mine along to my one remaining brother or his family.

elimar86861 · January 2015

Most of you have no doubt discovered this before me, but I am watching the series Mad Men on Netflix now. That is one show that will take you back (to the 60's) and not just the fashions and products, but the mentality! Oh, my!

MinusTwo · January 2015

A friend of mine got us tickets to The Buddy Holly Story next weekend. Should be fun. "Peggy Sue".

Anonymous · January 2015

ran across a couple good ones

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NativeMainer · January 2015

I do remember Lite Brite, and Cat's Cradle, and passing notes in school!

Rockym · January 2015

I still remember a teacher in 4th grade calling my mother into school saying that I was passing notes. I was not and my mother was always on my side. She told the teacher if I said I didn't do it, I didn't do it... end of story. I like some of these old memories! Thanks for the passing note reminder 2ndtime.

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elimar86861 · February 2015

Remember when you were a kid, and seeing those weird tabloids at the store? Or maybe your mom or neighbor picked one up. I remember one called TheTattler (and there's a whole long story why tattling is on my mind today!) which had this one article called "Man Run Over By Steamroller" and it had a picture of it. A picture! Now, the picture was not gory and was probably bogus as a three-dollar bill, but I remember thinking, "What are they standing around taking pictures for? Why aren't they trying to get that roller off of him?" What a sensible kid, eh?

MinusTwo · February 2015

Remember when Doris Day & Rock Hudson got into their in their heavy duty pajamas and the picture faded just as they leaned towards each other to kiss good night? Maybe "Pillow Talk"? I was thinking it was twin beds, but that wouldn't work for a kiss. Oh my goodness - even contemplating kissing while in PJ's, and in the bedroom? Horrors!! What were the morals of the world coming to.

elimar86861 · February 2015

Yeah, a ways back in this thread we were mentioning which "R"-rated movie we remembered. So funny that what was "R" back then is like PG now. I do remember that television used to save the more adult programming for after 9 p.m. Now, it's barely 6:30 in the evening before you hear someone talking about their vagina. I don't shock too easily, but growing up with those media codes does leave me surprised once in a while at what I can see and hear during "family hour" programming these days.

Am I a curmudgeon yet?

MinusTwo · February 2015

In training for certification!!!

elimar86861 · February 2015

I figured as much.

Anonymous · February 2015

Although they slept in twin beds throughout the entire run of the series, during the first two seasons of the show, 1951-1953, Ricky and Lucy slept in twin beds that were pushed together on the same box spring. Once little Ricky was born CBS suggested that the beds be pushed apart to diminish the impact of the suggested sexual history of Lucy and Ricky. The only time we see the Ricardo's in two bed pushed together again is when they first move to the bigger apartment into the Mertz' building, however, subsequently after that the beds are pushed apart again.Lucy and Ricky had twin beds.

Also, they couldn't say the word "pregnant" on the show. She had to say "expecting."

Boy have times changed!!

NativeMainer · February 2015

I remember hearing that they couldn't say "pregnant" on the show. Quite a difference from today!

elimar86861 · February 2015

I remember hearing something that in a cinematic "bedroom scene" one person from the couple had to keep at least one foot on the floor.

Didn't Rob & Laura from The Dick Van Dyke Show also have twin beds?

NativeMainer · March 2015

Anonymous · March 2015

I sure love that show. I never get tired of watching the reruns.

MinusTwo · March 2015

This Laundry Manual from the Open Library is before our time but I remember my mother & grandmother doing some of these things. I certainly remember doing several things growing up - like scrubbing on a wash board & hanging clothes on the line & dampening & rolling up clothes before ironing. Interesting to read.

https://archive.org/stream/cu31924003649559#page/n11/mode/2up

elimar86861 · March 2015

Remember those old washing machines that had the two rollers for squeezing out the extra water from the clothing? That was before the spin cycle. I heard it was called a mangle. I also heard that it mangled up a few hands that got too close.

MinusTwo · March 2015

We had a wringer washer growing up. The mangle was for ironing. My best friend's mother had one.

NativeMainer · March 2015

That Laundry Manual is FASCINATING!I remember my Grandmother doing many of those things.She has one of those wringer washers and would wring the clothes into the rinse tub.I still have the laundry stick she used to use, it's stained with the bluing agent.

elimar86861 · March 2015

MinusTwo, the wringer was a mangle. I had to check. I think you have the separate machine in mind.

And those began in older times. Yes, besides removing water, they could flatten things like sheets and linens.

But what I had in my mind, from seeing in the basement of various friends homes was the more modern combo of the wash machine (rightly called a wringer wash machine) with the mangle component on the top. Like this one:

Of course the basement ones I saw were old and rusty, and one little friend always used it to hide in theirs when we played hide-and-go-seek.

Eph3_12 · March 2015

My grandma used one of these in her basement when I was about 4. She and grandpa moved to a different house when I was 5ish & my family moved into the one with the basement, but I think my mom must have had electric by then.

Beatmon · March 2015

And we had to heat up the water to add to the washing machine...

elimar86861 · March 2015

Switching topics...

My middle-aged memory is quite good, but for over 40 years I had been plagued by remembering a movie I saw as a kid, but not remembering the name of it. I knew it was some B-grade fantasy film (and I thought it might have been one of the many Sindbad spin-offs of the day, but I must have checked all of IMDB and it wasn't.) All I remembered was a vizier (wizard) and his ring, an old crone and a panther. Yes, there was a hero and damsel in distress, but they weren't memorable to my child sensibilities.

Well, I was surfing late night t.v. last night, and when I came across the description for The Magic Sword, I felt my hopes go up that this could actually be the one I was remembering...and it was! I started watching and the parts I saw were vaguely, very vaguely familiar. Then, I fell asleep. But I Googled it this morning and going to watch it full length on You Tube tonight--with popcorn. ;-)

I won't recommend this schlocky fare to any of you, but if you ever sat all the way thru' anything that they had on Mystery Science Theater, you could probably handle this.

I have to admit that for the first 20 or so years, I didn't think about this movie, but it has been a mystery in my mind for over 20 years. Now solved!

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Related...did some of you grow up in a big enough city to have a Saturday night "Horror Host?"

Eph3_12 · March 2015

We had Elvira, imported from whereever she originated. We also had a local guy, father of a guy I went to school with, that hosted movies on the weekends. I don't remember them being horror necessarily but they were HORRIBLE.

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